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This is the final of 3 blogs exploring Climate Spheres recent on-farm biochar production and application project with Aqualate Farms, and the School of Sustainable Food and Farming and the Farmers Guardian. In this installment, we discuss the challenge of running the biochar kiln for the first time and share analysis of the biochar that was produced. 

In the first blog of this series, we explored the motivations for introducing biochar into sustainable farming practices. In this second of three blogs, we share insights into the processes involved in on-farm biochar production and application and explore the challenges identified along the way. As this blog focuses on the farmer experience of working through the process of producing and applying biochar on-farm, it is primarily written from the perspective of the farmers with whom the Climate Spheres’ UK team collaborated at Aqualate Farms.